Crossword 645

Prize: £10 — or a copy of Chambers Dictionary, 1983 edition (write 'Dictionary' under name and address) — for the first correct solution opened on 5 March. Entries to: Crossword 645, The Spectator 56 Doughty St., London WC1N 2LL.

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The unclued lights (one of two words) form three triads indirectly suggested by the title.

Name Address ACROSS

I Stalin's rash pet reforms, such as advocated Communes (14)

9 Fishes right away from winds (4) 11 Traps a foreign seaman in mobs? (9) 12 Bluster whirling dress about (4) 17 Stored ashes, charred but not black (5) 20 Gold found in beauty spot in the time of...? (7) 21 Old anarchic trick takes in the French (7) 24 Whip, cruel whip (7) 25 Partially blue veins backed old fist (5) 26 Massive bell decked with copper minutiae (5) 31 Constellation probed by Tycho's initial instruments (8) 37 Cross into Kansas for spoils (5) 38 An angel? Sounds elevated (5) 39 Wood inlay work transforms a stair (6) 40 Oar clipped a shoal once (4) 42 Piercing wail of grief (4) 43 Derelict sites are sadder where unemployment's severe (14, two words) DOWN

2 US ■isitor's book, where records are kept (5)

3 Horse is making for rock-cress (6) 4 Imaginary animal, second put to grass (5) 5 It isn't Edgar that's corrupt (7) 6 Vagrant horse, stray dam, brought in (7) 7 One who specifies, we hear, a fixed machine-part (6) 8 Messy Ted's unusually organised (8) 10 To draw out all the metal, right out, causes fatigue (10) 15 Prince is dividing genuine com- pensation (8)

19 Stratum lies blasted for at least 3.7064 km? (8, hyphened) ,.„ 22 Strike, according to a bloke (1?

23 Grooved rail turned up, note, to cot (8)

27 One brick-end in south buttress more sharply pointed (7)of 29 Elts? Yes, wild, after segrilen' - orange (7) 30 Elders clutching weak old necks

(6) 32 Followed, harnessed (6)

33 Woman of fashion enteris8 riotous sale (6)

35 Shad quite close to isle (5)